Articles Tagged: Time Machine

Cornell College was founded in 1853. In 1882, a large stone chapel was opened on the Mount Vernon campus, with …

Duane J. Arnold, who would become the namesake for a nuclear power plant in Eastern Iowa, grew up liking to …

Kate Daum – who has a University of Iowa residence hall named in her honor – was 9 years old …

Deer in Iowa were hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s, and Iowa lawmakers in 1898 banned the hunting of …

The Los Angeles school district owns more than 50,000 works of art. Philadelphia’s school district has 1,200. And the Cedar …

Midget racing started in California in the 1930s, but it was most popular in the decades after World War II. …

We weren’t supposed to be there. The old Fourth Avenue Bridge walkway was marked with warnings that it was unsafe. …

Josef Prusek had lived in Cedar Rapids since 1890. He built a two-story family home at 1601 N St. SW, …

Holiday parades marched along Cedar Rapids streets as early as 1916, when a Mother Goose parade sponsored by Killian’s department …

Can anyone prove that the famous Rudolph with the bright, shiny red nose has ever been in Iowa? Probably not. …

How did renowned novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wind up in Iowa City? Credit goes to his friend, George Starbuck, who …

Correction: Nile Kinnick was killed in June 1943 when his plane crashed off the coast of Venezuela. A previous version …

(Second of two parts) Verne Marshall, managing editor of The Evening Gazette and Republican, was called to testify in March …

Ponzi schemes came into vogue in the 1920s, with a Cedar Rapids cigar store owner in the middle of a …

When it comes to making waves in a single sport, it’s hard to top Beulah Gundling. The Cedar Rapids native …